[Python-ideas] Fwd: Concurrent safety?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Mike Meyer writes:

 > The proposed change doesn't prevent users from doing dangerous (and even
 > ugly things).

I didn't say it did, it "merely" imposes substantial inconvenience in
hope that:

 > It just forces them to *think* about what they're doing beforehand.

which I believe to be un-Pythonic.

But you say that you have an approach in mind which is reasonably
performant and doesn't change things too much for single-threaded
apps, which would make the discussion moot.  So let's see how that
works out.